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The Substance of Intellectual Duality Shared by Both the Italian Renaissance Mentality and the Outlook of Italian Fascism The Janusian Impulse: The Substance of Intellectual Duality Shared by Both the Italian Renaissance Mentality and the Outlook of Italian Fascism Perry M. Ward Usually, historians have interpreted Italian Fascism as a phenomenon that was discontinuitous with the rest of Italian history. If historians do concede that there was a logical precedent for Fascism in Italian history, they often point to aspects of the Roman Empire that seemed to inspire Fascism. Perhaps the very distance in chronological time between ancient Rome and the twentieth century, has contributed to the notion of Fascism’s aloofness from the rest of Italian History. Undoubtedly, the shadow of Rome cast its weight on the shoulders of the Fascist movement. However, historians have long ignored other elements of Italian history which contributed perhaps as much, if not more, to the genesis of Fascism. For example, would it not seem logical, that if the Fascist movement perceived itself to be the third great incarnation of “Italian” civilization, that its inspiration was drawn from impulses of not only the first, but the second birth of Italian greatness? Moreover, it can be logically surmised that a historically conscious and opportunistic movement such as Fascism, would recognize the blueprint previously established by the Renaissance for reviving the grandeur of Rome. For the sake of understanding the historical basis for Fascism within Italian history, perhaps it is the phenomenon of Renaissance thought which provides the best basis for comparative analysis. In a letter to the classical scholar and writer Giovanni Boccaccio-whose works would one day inspire authors such as Chaucer and Shakespeare-Francesco Petrarca, the Father of Humanism, emphasized that from the Italy of old, something new would arise.1 Likewise, about 550 years later in the diary of a squadrista, Mario Piazzesi recorded a conversation with his father. His father explained to him “a new Italy has been forming…after a period of uncertainty…for having overcome the age-old awe of the foreigner who for centuries was able to roam at will pillaging our country.”2 This conversation between a father and son regarding the birth of a new Italy was ironic because Petrarch himself likened the renewal of Italy to the relationship between a father and son; and explained that while the son was not a carbon copy of the father, the son did embody the same “air” as his father before him.3 Also while conversely, some historians have interpreted Fascism as a phenomenon with an antiquarian interest in the past, eminent specialists such as Roger Griffin, have suggested that if there did exist an intellectual minimum within the nucleus of a generic fascism, it radiated from the concept of palingenesis within a mythic core.4 The idea of palingenesis, achieving a rebirth or renewal, is one of the key linking impulses between Renaissance and Fascist thought. More than half of a century before the advent of Fascism, the presence of an irresistible impulse toward rebirth within his historical inquiries, led the legendary Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt to thus define the Italian epoch roughly between 1350 A.D. and 1500 A.D. as the “Renaissance.” Burckhardt’s work illustrated that historical forces affected intellectual change during this era. As Rome lay in shambles during the 1300’s, the Founder of Humanism, Petrarch, wrote a letter to the long departed Roman Consul, philosopher, and orator, Marcus Tullius Cicero, in which he explained to the Roman paragon that if he were still alive to see what had become of 1 Francesco Petrarch, Petrarch: The First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters, trans. James Harvey Robinson (New York: The Knockerbocker Press, 1914), 290. 2 Roger Griffin, ed., Fascism, (New York University Press, 1995), 39. 3 Robinson, ed., Petrarch, 290. 4 Griffin, ed., Fascism, 2-3. 2 Italian civilization, his “tears would run down.”5 Over one hundred years later in a 1492 letter to his son Cardinal Giovanni, Lorenzo the Magnificent, the most prominent statesman of the Late Italian Renaissance, still referred to Rome as the “sink of all iniquities.”6 The same concerns arose again almost half a millennium later. The vaunted Italian poet Gabrielle D’Annunzio both echoed Lorenzo, and anticipated Fascist sentiments, in 1920’s Constitution of Fiume, when he stated that the government of Fiume must be based on a “spirit of new life” which could serve as a harbinger of renewal for the again troubled Italian nation.7 Margherita Sarfatti, the Duce’s intellectually influential Jewish mistress, echoed D’Annunzio in an article which demanded the revival of Rome that she associated with a recovery of strength and energy.8 The ideas that the intellectual elites of both Renaissance and Fascist Italy emerged during times of extreme privation on the Italian Peninsula, and consequently focused on past glory in an attempt to revive Italian civilization. One of the best places to pinpoint the spirit of palingenesis within Renaissance thought is the poetry of Michelangelo. The poems are filled with palingenetic imagery. His metaphorical use of fire is especially pertinent to a comparative analysis with Italian Fascism. The idea of equating the destructive elements of fire as a creative genesis was similar to the Fascist understanding of destruction as a creative act, which was inherited by Fascism more directly from the influence of Georges Sorel, the most influential spokesman for syndicalism, and Filippo Marinetti, the prime contributor to Fascist ultra-modernism. In the poem Were one allowed to kill himself right here, Michelangelo mused over the human soul’s 5 Francesco Petrarch, Letters from Petrarch, trans. Morris Bishop (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1966), 210. 6 Jon Thiem, ed., Lorenzo de’ Medici: Selected Poems and Prose, trans. Jon Thiem, and others (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991), 177. 7 Griffin, ed., Fascsim, 36-37. 8 Jeffrey T. Schnapp, ed., A Primer of Italian Fascism, trans. Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Olivia E. Sears, Maria G. Stampino (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000), 250-251. 3 yearning to rise like the phoenix in a fiery solar resurrection, only to inevitably recognize its inability to do so.9 Michelangelo goes on to equate fire with life and wrote in I weep, I burn-burn up!-my heart thereby that “he who lives on death is meant never to die.”10 While it may be difficult for twenty-first century historians to draw the relation between mentalities associated with love and war, this connection would have made perfect sense to the Fascists. Michelangelo’s passages seem analogous to the Fascist dystopian view of life, which viewed war as an act of renewal, and a sign of vitality. In a letter to the Duce in 1923, Marinetti employed futuristic rhetoric to elaborate his idea that war was the “sole hygiene of the world.”11 The importance of the Fascist understanding of the creative properties of destruction cannot be overemphasized. In perhaps the definitive explanation of exactly what Fascism was, the Duce and the prominent Fascist philosopher Giovanni Gentile, penned The Foundations and Doctrine of Fascism in 1932. Throughout the text the idea of both spiritual and physical struggle was ever-present, as the Duce argued that war was directly linked to a nation’s vitality. But perhaps most explanatory, the text read that “through death itself, can be achieved that purely spiritual existence in which his value as a man consists.”12 This emphasized the differentiation between Fascism and more materially motivated systems like socialism and democracy; Fascist thought was spiritual and perceived to be above material concerns. The belief that the past was a blueprint to present and future renewal, preoccupied both Humanist and Fascist minds. In a letter to Tomasso da Messina, Petrarch explained his belief in the importance of traversing “old roads”, yet he also felt that “it does not immediately follow that we should linger on it 9 Michelangelo Buonarroti, The Complete Poems of Michelangelo, trans. John Frederick Nims (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998), 30. 10 Ibid., 59. 11 Schnapp, Primer of Fascism, 277. 12 Ibid., 47. 4 forever.”13 This exemplified the reawakening element of palingenesis and the political opportunism that would later characterize the Fascist Regime as well. In another letter to Cicero, Petrarch found points of critique for his literary hero.14 Petrarch seems to have been aware that while the greatness of the ancients could serve as a guide to reinvigoration, sycophantic imitation would not provide the necessary stimulus to revive Italian civilization. Both Renaissance and Fascist ideology looked to the past without antiquarian interest, rather the movements searched to find the genius of the ancients only to harness their wisdom in a new historical epoch. Perhaps somewhat unfairly, many historians have argued that Petrarch was more Medieval than modern in the respect that he preferred the contemplative life, over one of action.15 Yet ultimately, the historical record indicates that Petrarch and the other Humanists rejected the contemplative life in favor of an active one. In a letter to Charles IV, the king of France who is also known to history as “the Fair”, Petrarch blatantly asked the monarch why he wasted his time in “mere consultation” rather than actively initiating policy.16 Later, in correspondence to Lorenzo Lippi, Ficino defined divinity as the “harmony of thought, word, and deed”, implying that intellectual pursuits were without merit unless they guided action.17 Similarly, one of the Renaissance’s most profound philosophers, Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola, also stressed that actuality was a higher level of existence than potentiality.18 13 Robinson, ed., Petrarch, 221. 14 Ibid., 250. 15 Charles G. Nauert, Humanismand the Culture of Renaissance Europe, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 19-24.
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